Measure distance between two points - command

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Quick simple question.

Is there a command allowing to quickly measure distance between two points defined by X and Y?
.... something like this "DIST":

DIST 10, 20, 30, 50 , distance

PRINT distance != 36,1

If there no such command than is there a simpler method than this? :

distance = sqr( (30-10)*(30-10) + (50-20)*(50-20) )

[sinceV6]

philips wrote:
Hi,

Quick simple question.

Is there a command allowing to quickly measure distance between two points defined by X and Y?
.... something like this "DIST":

DIST 10, 20, 30, 50 , distance

PRINT distance != 36,1

Hello.

No.

Or none that I'm aware of.
Finding the hypotenuse is the simple way of knowing the distance between two points.

philips wrote:
If there no such command than is there a simpler method than this? :

distance = sqr( (30-10)*(30-10) + (50-20)*(50-20) )

You could only simplify with:

distance = sqr(  (30-10)^2 + (50-20)^2 )

or

distance = sqr(  (30-10)**2 + (50-20)**2 )

but that's about it.

Best regards.

[Anonymous]

It would be really nice to have such a command, especially when it comes to measuring distance between two points defined in 3D by X, Y, Z.

Measuring is very useful when trying to do such a thing (point attracted cones):

[Anonymous]

Hi,
you can always use a subroutine with some variables to store input and output or a macro object with seven parameters, six input and a returned parameter for the result.

[Anonymous]

Basically, for measuring distance in 3D, its not that difficult as it is:

 
distance = sqr ( (x2-x1)^2 + (y2-y1)^2 + (z2 - z1)^2 ) 

but still it would be nice to make it more simple.

Next question:

Is it possible to request position of any other object selected by its unique ID?
What I'm thinking of is to treat a secondary object outside the GDL object to work as a attractor influencing parameters of this GDL Object...

For the above example I used a moveable hotspot inside the GDL Object as the attractor. This is why I can make many options of it a few seconds:

[Laszlo Nagy]

GDL Objects cannot be aware of each other directly, there is no such functionality as far as I know.
I don't know if the following could be done but one object could write the information needed by the other object into a file, and the other object could read it.
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But I don't know if this would work as I have not tried it myself, it is just an idea.